Eileen Huskey

Eileen Annabelle (Morgan) (Foster) Huskey, 87, of Circleville died October 9, 2015, in Columbus after a five-month battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Born Aug. 24, 1928, in Portsmouth, Ohio, she was the youngest of Raymond and Pauline Morgan's three daughters and survived polio as a child.
She was a 1946 graduate of Portsmouth High School, where she was inducted into the National Honor Society. She became a registered nurse after completing training at Saint Mary's School of Nursing in Huntington, W.Va. She worked in a Portsmouth hospital and a doctor's office until her marriage to Teddy L. Foster in 1953.
They lived in Ada, Williamsburg, Minerva, and Somerset before settling in Circleville in 1960, when he was hired as a pharmacist at Bingman's Drug Store. When the store was bombed in 1967, she was widowed, with five children to raise.
In Circleville, she worked as a public health nurse, in the Emergency and Surgery departments at Berger Hospital and at the Circleville Senior Center.
In 1971, she married C. George Huskey, a widower with five children.
While the children were in school, Mrs. Huskey volunteered as a school nurse, chaperoned countless field trips, and was active in PTA's, Band and Sports Booster clubs, Scouts, and the AFS student exchange.
Mrs. Huskey was a Red Cross nurse and a longtime member of Community United Methodist Church.
A Life Master bridge player, she was a member of the Circleville Bridge Club. She was a world traveler, a bowler and a consummate Buckeyes fan, as well as a member of a women's investment club and the Red Hat Society.
She was pre-deceased by her parents; her first husband; her sisters, June Wolfe and Virginia Speeg; and grandson, Patrick Huskey.
She is survived by her husband, George and 10 children: Meg Huskey of Pownal, Maine; Susan (Steve) Woas of New Port Ritchey, Fla.; Karen (Jim) Nolan of Vacaville, Calif.; Dickerson (Sarah) Huskey of Blue Ash; Ty (Deborah) Foster of Cincinnati; Joni Foster (James Shuler) of Lockhart, Texas; Clark (Carla) Huskey of Columbus; Robert (Alice) Foster of Circleville; Donald (Kelli) Foster of Westerville; Lee Huskey of Sidney; and daughter-in-law, Barb of Sidney. She is also survived by 13 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a niece and three nephews.
Visitation will be 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Wellman Funeral Home, 1455 N. Court St. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Community United Methodist Church, 120 N. Pickaway St. Burial will be in Forest Cemetery.